Identification file

Identification file

Metopolophium dirhodum  (Walker, 1849)

2-3 mm

Apterous: quite large, oval, light yellowish green with darker longitudinal line (1)
Frons: U shaped with margins parallel with a medial tubercle (2)
Antennae dark with segmental articulations and at tip (3)
Cornicles long, straight and light-coloured with tip slightly pigmented (4)
Cauda digitate and light-coloured (5)

Metopolophium dirhodum : fiche d'identification

Metopolophium dirhodum © Encyclop'Aphid

Alate: pale green to yellow, thorax brown
Frons U shaped with margins parallel with a medial tubercle (6)
Antennae moderately pigmented (7), generally  darker than abdomen
Cornicles long, straight and light-coloured with tip slightly pigmented (8)
Cauda digitate and light-coloured (9)

Species file

Modification date : 07 February 2023 | Publication date : 31 January 2013 | Redactor : Evelyne Turpeau, Maurice Hullé, Bernard Chaubet